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8/12/2025 City Council Packet

8/8/2025

Here is the agenda for next Tuesday night's City Council meeting, and all the applicable documentation that goes along with it.

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August News 2025

8/1/2025

AUGUST EVENTS

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Letters of Support Requested for Long Range Transportation Plan

7/30/2025

The City is in process of writing a grant application in hopes of an award of $40,000 to write a Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). A LRTP is essentially a list of various transportation projects that could improve traffic and pedestrian safety and flow patterns. This is an engineered study which may state "sidewalks, curb, gutter and paving are recommended" or "a roundabout is suggested" here or there, just as examples. This planning initiative is a critical step toward improving public safety and accessibility.

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WATER & SEWER BASE RATE INCREASES

6/10/2025

The Three Forks City Council will hold public hearings on June 10, 2025, and July 8, 2025, both at 6:00PM to hear a resolution of intent to increase the minimum (base) sewer and water rates by up to 10% and 15%, respectively.

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Water Project Update -

6/9/2025

4th Avenue E, from Date to Elm, will be open again shortly. The trench is soft, so there will be cones in it to encourage you to stay to the right side of the street, but they wanted to get it open for through traffic. The contractor will return to this area later after a water test, and will pave it.

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Ordinances pass on first reading

5/13/2025

Ordinance #404-2025, an ordinance adding Chapter 22 titled "Southeast Zoning District" to the Zoning Code (Title 11), passed on its first reading on 5/13/2025 with minor changes from the draft which was posted on the Council's Packet webpage.  The new draft can be viewed here.  

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Zoning Regulation Updates to Chapter 13 "Parking"

5/9/2025

The Three Forks Zoning & Planning Board will meet Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 206 Main Street.  This meeting will discuss updates to Title 11, Chapter 13 "Parking", as well as a performance-zoning checklist for the recently recommended Southeast Zoning District (Chapter 22).  The Council will read this chapter as a first reading of an ordinance on 5/13/2025 at 6PM.

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New Zoning Chapters - #22 Southeast Zoning District and #23 Landscaping

4/7/2025

New Zoning Chapters - #22 Southeast Zoning District and #23 Landscaping

The Zoning & Planning board will hold its meeting this month on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 6:30PM. This meeting will be held at City Hall, 206 Main Street, Three Forks.

The agenda can be found here: https://www.threeforksmontana.us/calendar-of-city-events...

This meeting will hear and make a recommendation on two new Zoning Chapters:

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New Impact Fees Up For Decision 2/11/2025

1/29/2025

UPDATE - This resolution has been rescheduled to be heard by the City Council on 5/27/2025 at 6PM.

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Madison-Ruby-Jefferson River Watersheds Flood Maps Update

10/7/2024

Madison, Jefferson, Gallatin, and Broadwater Counties have been working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) to produce new floodplain maps for portions of the Madison, Ruby, Jefferson, Beaverhead and South Boulder Rivers, and Mill and Indian Creeks.

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